Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021

Support

Representation ID: 2538

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

This seeems a sensible time period and meets the minimum required by National Planning Policy

Object

Representation ID: 2541

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

The policy of improving the design quality does not pay enough attention to the need to green up houses. New builds should be carbon neutral and have features at the build stage which ensure this. All houses, including affordable and social should have these features.
Transport focus is on movement between settlements whereas there is also a need for intra settlement travel allowing for less car use.

Support

Representation ID: 3138

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

Generally I support the policy but feel it needs to take into account the different topological challenges different areaas face. Quite often the distances between facilities look short but the terrain does not allow for that short route, particularly at night. The placement of some developments can necessitate car journeys to school, work or back, even though one may wish to go by another method.
In addition, efficient public transport services need to be in place earlier than the development.

Object

Representation ID: 3158

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

I have some concerns regarding policy of reducing long term parking in the smaller town centres. Often public transport is poor intra these settlements and, therefore, people will drive to their final detination or, to use the more regular inter settlement buses, people will go to the vicinity of the terminus and park there. Due to reluctance to pay parking charges they end up parking on the roadside. If car parks were free and allowed long stay those commuters/shoppers would be off the roads or roadside. In addition, parking for railway stations, particularly the smaller ones, needs to be reviewed with the transport authorities.

Support

Representation ID: 3180

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

I support the policy but wonder if the future of the site at Esholt needs serious consideration in view of its under use.

Support

Representation ID: 3191

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

I am generally supportive of the approach but have concerns over the green belt, in terms of the difficulty of providing sustainable new boundaries. I would also like to see that there is more of a focus on the intra settlement public transport which is somewhat poor, whilst recognising that public transport to other settlements has been steadly eroded since the deregulation of buses.

Object

Representation ID: 3192

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

Access issues, even through Walker Wood make this site untenable in my view. The 5 houses allocated are less than the planning application foresaw and its is likely that a developer would want more. The are concerns over the impact on the watercourse. Public transport is poor and the local secondary school is only accesible down a badly lit bridleway.

Object

Representation ID: 3194

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

The first issue with this is that it is encroachment on the green belt. The green belt boundary will be weakened as the next extremities will be less defined than the road. The site however would be a natural infill, better than some others proposed.
Public transport is poorly served with buses one per hour and the secondary school and train station at Saltaire being reached via a bridleway down to Higher Coach Road.
The West Lane /Lucy Hall ribbon is poorly served by other infrastructure. There have been over 300 houses built along West Lane/ Lucy Hall drive since the 1980s with no provision for retail or playgrounds facilities.
The roads with the exception of a back route to Bingley all lead to Baildon Town roundabout, this will add to congestion and reduction in air quality.
Any development must include green space and playground facilities in conjunction with BA6/H

Support

Representation ID: 3357

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

I support this in general as it is part brownfield and part greenfield site. Given previous difficulties with the selling of other properties built on the curtilage of the old Ferniehurst School, I would expect that this will be an extension of social housing. It should be noted that the nearest primary school geographically is at the top of Baildon Bank.
A concern is that recreation land is being taken away. The UDP of 2005 pages 15 and 16 references this. Further when the existing, adjacent housing development was first suggested it was recognised that this recreation land ought to be compensated.

Support

Representation ID: 3362

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon Branch Labour Party

I support this with the proviso that road improvements are undertaken at the Green Lane/Otley Road junction. Otherwise continued back up of traffic queuing in the former will make air quality for residents poor. Both parts of this site have been previously developed and although grassed since could still be taken to be brownfield.
There are concerns regarding the spring, the house above is called Springcliffe, and the mature trees on site.
Further, in 2015 houses opposite across Cliffe Lane and the retail unit adjacent to the site were flooded in the Boxing Day floods.